Purdue’s Female Founders (eBook)

The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty

Angie Klink (Autor)

Jennifer L. Bay (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
423 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62671-178-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Purdue’s Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty chronicles and celebrates the fortitude and achievements of the foremothers of Purdue University. This engaging book offers a collection of profiles of women faculty who, despite profound roadblocks because of their gender, shaped the institution from its beginning in the late 1800s through the latter half of the twentieth century. These are the stories of Purdue women who persevered against the odds to follow their dreams to conduct research and teach; establish departments, schools, and colleges; and blaze paths in a male-dominated culture. Readers will learn about women who faced discrimination but persisted and thrived despite prejudice. These compelling profiles celebrate women in art, science, nutrition, literature, nursing, speech, engineering, fashion design, home economics, family life, psychology, agriculture, health and kinesiology, business, and more. Covering 125 years of university history told through the female lens, this book rightfully honors the many women who helped shape Purdue.

Inhalt

Foreword, by KATEY WATSON

Preface, by ANGIE KLINK

Introduction, by JENNIFER L . BAY

1 Purdue’s Feminine Roots

2 Health Starts at Home

3 Home Economics Powerhouses

4 A “Room” of One’s Own

5 Late to the Game—Physical Education

6 Indiana’s First Nursery School

7 Art, the Hoosier Salon, and Historic Fashions

8 Amelia Earhart and Lillian Gilbreth

9 World War II Survivors and Thrivers

10 Women Who Enriched Family Life

11 New Home Economics Dean and Pioneers in Brazil

12 Influencers in Liberal Arts and School of Science

13 Research Horizons in Beulah Land

14 Lone Woman in Agriculture

15 Women in Engineering

16 Physical Education for Women and Title IX

17 Nursing, a Sleeping Giant

18 Home Economics Reordered for the Times

19 Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable

20 Helen Schleman Fights for Female Faculty

21 The 1970s and the Women’s Liberation Movement

22 Krannert Trailblazers

23 Rats Help Better Babies’ Lives

24 Diets and Skeletons

25 The World Needs Educated Women

26 Strides for Minorities and Community

27 Historic Treks in Speech and Hearing

28 Forging New Fields of Study

29 Fashion Design, Historic Costumes, and the Purdue Tartan

30 Family First

31 Rising through the Ranks and Creating a New College

Postscript

Notes

Index

About the Author

About the Editor

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Founders Series
• Vorwort: Katey Watson
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Amelia Earhart • Carolyn Woo • Christine Ladisch • Emma Ewing • Equality • Equal Rights • Fashion Design • female discrimination • female mentorship • Female Professors • Feminism • Helen Bass Williams • Helen Golden • Helen Schleman • higher education • history of university women • Home economics • Janice Lauer • Laurentza Schantz-Hansen • Leah Jamieson • lillian gilbreth • Mary Lockwood Matthews • Physical Education • Purdue foremothers • Sexism • Title IX • Violet Haas • Virginia Meredith • women in academia • Women in Engineering • women professors • women’s biographies • women’s liberation movement • Women’s rights
• ISBN-10: 1-62671-178-X / 162671178X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62671-178-5 / 9781626711785